Where others saw only sage, a salt lake, and a great desert, the Mormons saw their "lovely Deseret," a land of lilacs, honeycombs, poplars, and fruit trees. Unwelcome in Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois, they migrated to the dry lands between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada to establish Mormon country, a wasteland made green. Like the land the Mormons settled, their habits stood in stark contrast to the frenzied recklessness of the American West. Opposed to the often prodigal individualism of the West, Mormons lived in closely knit communities ;some say ironclad communities. The story of Mormon country is one of self-sacrifice and labor spent in the search for an ideal in the most forbidding territory of the American West. Richard W. Etulain provides a new introduction to this edition.
Utah is a very beautiful state huge snow covered mountains in the spring covered with mossy green in the summer, with beautiful wildflowers covering the mountain tops in July and August. In the Valleys which are desert green grass and wildflowers and green trees in the spring and summer, and beautiful golden quaking Aspens in the fall with snow covered mountains with powder snow in the winter.
Utah is a very beautiful state huge snow covered mountains in the spring covered with mossy green in the summer, with beautiful wildflowers covering the mountain tops in July and August. In the Valleys which are desert green grass and wildflowers and green trees in the spring and summer, and beautiful golden quaking Aspens in the fall with snow covered mountains with powder snow in the winter.
